INCLUDE Condition Insulin and children
Insulin + children
N.B. Insulin children
and/AND/+/default
pages with both words Insulin and children
pages with both words Insulin and children
pages with words Insulin and children
OR Condition
Insulin or children
or/OR
pages with words Insulin or children or both
EXCLUDE Condition
Insulin not children
Insulin - children
not/NOT/-
pages with word Insulin and without children
pages with word Insulin and without children
N.B.You cannot start an expression with a NOT condition
not Insulin
not Insulin and children
N.B. Each condition should be on its own and not followed by another one. If it is, only the last one is considered e.g:
Insulin and not children
is processed as
Insulin not children
PHRASES
DOUBLE QUOTES
If you wish to find the phrase 'Insulin children' rather than the individual words Insulin or children then use double quotes,
e.g:
"Insulin children"
will return all pages where the words 'Insulin children' appear together with a space in between (multiple spaces in between the words are ignored).
Note that hyphenated words need to be put in quotes so that the search knows you are not using an exclude condition as shown above.
e.g:
"Pass-IT"
"anti-social"
"anti-inflammatory"
COMPLEX CONDITION
PARENTHESES
Some conditions can be ambiguous in meaning. e.g
Insulin and children or adolescents and diabetes
You can make it clear what is being asked for by using parentheses. i.e
(Insulin and children) or (adolescents and specimen question papers)
means pages with both words Insulin and children, or, both words adolescents and diabetes
Another example of complex search conditions would be:
Insulin and (children or adolescents) and diabetes
means pages with words Insulin and diabetes, and also either children or adolescents.
WILD CARD
ASTERISK
If you look for the word super then you will not find the words superb or supersonic.
If you use the wild card character asterisk then you can. i.e.
super*
will return pages with words super, superb, supersonic etc.
PROXIMITY
near/NEAR
This will find all pages where two or more words are ‘near’ each other.
The pages will be prioritised according to how near the words are to each other up to a limit of words that separate them (approximately forty words).
e.g.
Insulin near children
will return pages with the words Insulin and children within about forty words to each other and prioritised so that the pages where the words are closest together are prioritised in the search results page. e.g.
Insulin near children near speciment question papers
will find pages where cat is near dog and dog is near parrot.
UPPER AND LOWER CASE
The search will find words that match regardless of capital letters or otherwise. e.g.
Insulin
will find Insulin or Insulin or Insulin or Insulin.
COMBING WORDS AND PHRASES WITH OPERATORS
You can search any combination of words and phrases. e.g.
(Insulin and children not "syllabus") or ("professional development" not work*)
finds pages with words Insulin and children but not syllabus, or pages with words professional development as a phrase separated by a space but not including words work, workshop, working etc